CLEVELANDThe best way to keep bacteria from doing any damage is to stop them in their tracks before they can start down their pathological road to destruction.
Yiping Han, associate professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, aims to understand how to build roadbl...

Skipping one phase when treating infertility also cuts costs, study finds
FRIDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- Among couples going to fertility clinics, pregnancy occurred more quickly -- and for less money -- when they took an accelerated route to in vitro fertilization, a new study h...

WASHINGTON, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Actuarie s is encouraged by commitments from the Obama administration and health care stakeholder groups to tackle health spending growth and pursue options to create a more stable and sustainable health care system.
"In...

- Company to host seminar Tuesday, March 17, 2009, from 8:30 to 9:30 AM in Room 337
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ChanTest, the leading expert in ion channels and GPCRs (G-protein coupled receptors) - key to drug discovery, development, and safety - will feature the latest in its...

HOUSTON and WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A phase I clinical trial enrolled its first patient only two days after U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance of the experimental drug for a first-in-human cancer trial, a milestone that normally takes three to six...

Company Expands Overseas TBI Trial
COSTA MESA, Calif., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: OXBO) today announced that the company has received a letter from the FDA that outlines what the agency termed a "path forward" as a basis to resume clin...

Dr. Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of the International Partnership for Microbicides, issued the following statement on the results of the Phase II/IIb safety and effectiveness study of BufferGel and PRO2000 (0.5 percent concentration):
SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Microbicide Trials N...

SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthera Pharmaceuticals
announced today they have reached agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) on a Phase 3 protocol for varespladib (A-002) in acute
coronary syndrome (ACS) under the FDA's Special Protocol Assessment
procedure....

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph F. Finn, Jr.,
CPA, the Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of ActivBiotics, announced
today the design of a clinical trial to investigate whether Chlamydia STD
is treated adequately by currently approved antibiotics. Rifalazil, the
most ...

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LA JOLLA, Calif., January 9, 2009 -- Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have shown that search algorithms used in digital communications can help scientists identify effective multi-drug combinations. The study, led by Giovanni Paternostro, M.D., Ph.D., was publish...

African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, and a University of Washington conservation biologist contends it is because the public seem...

Heart disease is still a major killer, especially in the western world, but new therapies based on stem cells and other techniques could now be imminent. Progress is being held back however by the difficulty testing new therapies on human heart tissue, with animal models being only of limited valu...

A new, easily ingested form of a compound that has already shown it can attack the roots of leukemia in laboratory studies is moving into human clinical trials, according to a new article by University of Rochester investigators in the journal, Blood.
The Rochester team has been leading the inv...

Photosynthesis is a remarkable biological process that supports life on earth. Plants and photosynthetic microbes do so by harvesting light to produce their food, and in the process, also provide vital oxygen for animals and people.
Now, a large, international collaboration between Arizona State...

Geneticists have discovered a new gene that may put individuals at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
The identification of the gene, called kalirin, implicates a biological mechanism never before linked to cardiovascular disease, according to the Duke researchers who led the stud...

UPTON, NY A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has developed a new catalyst that could make ethanol-powered fuel cells feasible. The highly efficient ...

Partnership will accelerate research of potential vaccine for low-resource countries
SEATTLE, and GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The biotech company Lentigen Corporation and the nonprofit global health organization PATH announced today a partnership to accelerate research on a ...

Existing European Data Will Be Used for NDA Resubmission Planned For First Quarter 2009
LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Indevus
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDEV ) announced today that it has reached
agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Admi...

SYDNEY, Australia, May 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmaxis
(AXS: PSX; Nasdaq: PXSL) today announced that it has agreed with advice
from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the design of a pivotal
Phase 3 trial of the company's mucus clearing agent, Bronchitol, in
patients w...

Significant Difference in Primary Endpoint Could be Acceptable With Fewer Patients Than Originally Planned
SEATTLE, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
(CTI) (Nasdaq: CTIC ) (MTAX: CTIC) announced today that following
discussions with the U.S. Food and ...

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...g brains with machines
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